Kallocain
Kallocain by Karin Boye is a pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Swedenâs most acclaimed writers. Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian âWorld Stateâ which seeks to crush the individual entirely. moreIn this desolate, paranoid landscape of âpolice eyesâ and âpolice earsâ, the obedient citizen and middle-ranking scientist Leo Kall discovers a drug that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. But can private thought really be obliterated? Karin Boyeâs chilling novel of creeping alienation shows the dangers of acquiescence and the power of resistance, no matter how futile.
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Kallocain by Karin Boye is a pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Swedenâs most acclaimed writers. Written midway between Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian âWorld Stateâ which seeks to crush the individual entirely. moreIn this desolate, paranoid landscape of âpolice eyesâ and âpolice earsâ, the obedient citizen and middle-ranking scientist Leo Kall discovers a drug that will force anyone who takes it to tell the truth. But can private thought really be obliterated? Karin Boyeâs chilling novel of creeping alienation shows the dangers of acquiescence and the power of resistance, no matter how futile.
